David Bentley Hart Quotes

But Desire Must Also Be Cultivated; The Beautiful Does Not Always Immediately Commend Itself To Every Taste; Christ's Beauty, Like That Of Isaiah's Suffering Servant, Is Not Expressed In Vacuous Comeliness Or Shadowless Glamor, But Calls For A Love That Is Charitable, That Is Not Dismayed By Distance Or Mystery, And That Can Repent Of Its Failure To See; This Is To Acquire What Augustine Calls A Taste For The Beauty Of God (Soliloquia 1.3-14). Once This Taste Is Learned, Divine Beauty, As Gregory Of Nyssa Says, Inflames Desire, Drawing One On Into An Endless Epektasis, A Stretching Out Toward An Ever Greater Embrace Of Divine Glory. And,

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